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Telescope control plugin does not show telescope with negative dec. #3807

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@umlafre

Hi there, I am trying to build up a subset the LX200 protocol on an Arduino, so it is possible that I am at fault here, as I am not at all experienced with working with telescope control. Essentially, I am able to use the Telescope Control plugin to move the telescope wherever I would like (for now, no telescope is attached, so the responses to getting RA and dec are just immediately what I set it to). However, when I move the telescope to an object with a negative dec, Stellarium presents the telescope as having a dec of 0, with the correct RA.
Screenshot 2024-07-10 at 11 38 50 PM
What confuses me is that, looking at the log_TelescopeServer1.txt file, it looks like my program is sending coordinates that are being correctly parsed by the plugin:

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19915, 03:02:26.384667Z: Lx200Connection::sendCommand(Lx200CommandGetRa)
19915, 03:02:26.384675Z: Lx200Connection::writeFrontCommandToBuffer(Lx200CommandGetRa): queued
19915, 03:02:26.384677Z: Lx200Connection::sendCommand(Lx200CommandGetDec)
19915, 03:02:26.384698Z: Connection::performWriting: writeNonblocking(5) returned 5; #:GR#
19915, 03:02:26.423597Z: Connection::performReading: readNonblocking returned 9; 16:29:26#
19915, 03:02:26.423604Z: Lx200CommandGetRa::readAnswerFromBuffer: RA = 16:29:26
19915, 03:02:26.423606Z: Lx200Connection::writeFrontCommandToBuffer(Lx200CommandGetDec): queued
19915, 03:02:26.462192Z: Connection::performWriting: writeNonblocking(5) returned 5; #:GD#
19915, 03:02:26.500998Z: Connection::performReading: readNonblocking returned 10; -26ß25:59#
19915, 03:02:26.501005Z: Lx200CommandGetDec::readAnswerFromBuffer: Dec = -26:25:59
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Thanks very much for your help.

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  • Stellarium version: 24.2.0
  • Operating system: macOS 14.6
  • Does not affect windows

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